Similar words: ceiling, glass ceiling, price ceiling, debilitating, debt, ceil, debtor, ailing. Meaning: n. the maximum borrowing power of a governmental entity.
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31. For example, the debt ceiling has been raised by enough to see the country through the far side of the coming election, without another nail-biting stand-off in between.
32. Whether for this reason or from conviction, most profess themselves unfazed by the prospect of a failure to raise the debt ceiling.
33. Many of these do not want the debt ceiling to rise.
34. So is a failure to raise the debt ceiling unthinkable? Not at all.
35. For if we hit the debt ceiling, the government will be forced to stop paying roughly a third of its bills, because that’s the share of spending currently financed by borrowing.
36. "Unless we do those things I don't think many people on my side of the aisle are going to have an appetite for increasing the debt ceiling," he said in a speech on the Senate floor.
37. Opposition Republicans in Congress refuse to increase the debt ceiling unless the government budget deficit is reduced significantly.
38. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has warned the United States could face a catastrophic default that would roil global markets if Congress does not raise the debt ceiling by then.
39. There is no reason to have a national debt ceiling if every time we reach it, Congress raises it.
40. Obama had said he strongly opposes any bill that doesn't raise the debt ceiling through the 2012 election -- something, he said,[www.Sentencedict.com] that would not happen under the compromise agreement.
41. The two parties also disagree on the time and quantum of raising the debt ceiling.
42. They also ask about our legislative debates, on issues like the debt ceiling.
43. It was a wild ride today in Asia as the Dollar continued to be on the receiving end of a beating due to the continued stalemate in debt ceiling talks in the US Government.
44. In U.S. politics, much of the next month in Washington will be spent in a polarized debate over whether to raise the national debt ceiling in order to avoid default.
45. By the time a vote on raising the national debt ceiling was required, Republicans had gotten control of the House of Representatives.
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